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DELONG CHAIRS ACP GOVERNORS

Bassett Doctor Leads Top MD Association COOPERSTOWN

Bassett Hospital’s DeLong, M.D., s of Saturday, FACP, was elevated April 13, to chairman of the 154,000 phyBoard of Regents of sicians from around the American Colthe U.S. and the world lege of Physicians are looking to Dr. during Internal Douglas M. DeLong Please See, for leadership. DELONG, A6 Dr. DeLong

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Paul Rosa, Otego, helps pack a truck full of styrofoam to recycle as part of the annual Earth Day festivities at Milford Central School on Saturday, April 13.

4-Year Max Sentence In Death Of Girl

Consultant Explores Method For Southside, Main St. Jobs

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ames Brower, who was arrested and charged in conujunction with the 2017 rape and murder of Jacelyn O’Connor, 11, Morris, will serve a maximum of four and half years after pleading guilty Friday to a felony count of first-degree hindering prosecution in Chenango County Court. Though initially charged with murder in the second degree, the investigation revealed that Brower did not commit the rape or the murder. Last August, RundstromWooding was sentenced to 20-to-life for raping and killing Jacelyn.

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â–ş the Leatherstocking Market and Fuel Store was damaged in an early-morning fire on Thursday, April 11. According to Pindars Corners fire chief Matt Rittlinger, the fire is believed to have been an accident. â–ş THE League of Women Voters are planning “A User’s Guide for Local Democracy: Skill Building for Active Organizations and Individuals,â€? 8:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Springbrook’s Family Engagement Center on Route 28. â–ş Anthony Eardley, an Oneonta native, will compete on NBC’s “American Ninja Warriorâ€? on Wednesday, May 29.

Manager George Korthauer and other staffers Tuesday, April 9, and is due back at WEST ONEONTA City Hall this week with Max Prager/Special to HOMETOWN ONEONTA initial findings. Jacob Russell raises his fist in triumph after he and Patrick Dewey eothermal energy Wednesday, April 10, he completed the Boston Marathon in 3:28:53, in the top 30 percent of fever is sweeping briefed the Oneonta Town runners overall. The two are running pals from their Cooperstown Greater Oneonta. Board and the full audience Central days. First the city in attendance. and now the town Both muare “seriously nicipalities are considering� goasking Egg for ing geothermal, feasibility studthe 20-mile mark. By LIBBY CUDMORE using heat from ies, the city for “He was humming Led Zepplin’s beneath the earth pairing geother‘Heartbreaker’, appropriately,� said mal development COOPERSTOWN Russell. “It really gave me encouragement. to warm aboveearth homes. with replacing It was a challenge, but it’s not as bad as Jay Egg, a geothe South Main atrick Dewey knew just how to help the Sleeping Lion!� Street water Jacob Russell get up the Boston The pair, who have been racing together thermal system HOMETOWN ONEONTA consultant, met at Please See Marathon’s infamous Heartbreak since 2012, completed their first Boston Jay Egg briefs length with City EGG, A7 Hill, the half-mile uphill stretch just past Please See DUO, A3 By JENNIFER HILL

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THOMAS WOLFE IN TOP JOB

New CSO Exec Seasoned On Europe’s Opera Stage By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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lyric tenor, Thomas Wolf’s operatic career was on the rise. Southwest Germany’s largest daily, Munchner Merkur, celebrated his “particularly beautiful and warm

tenor� voice, “wonderfully controlled.� In 1992, when a headliner dropped out of Mozart’s “Magic Wolfe Flute� at Munich’s opera house, it Please See CSO, A3

B&B Owner Drowned As Car Runs Into Lake 2 Officers Injured In Rescue Attempt By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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t’s rare, but not unheard of, for a car to end up in a body of water, said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. after last week’s fatal submersion off the boat ramp into Otsego Lake at the end

of Fair Street. “Before I was sheriff, someone drove into the Susquehanna River,� he said. “They were unfamiliar with the area and drove down what they thought was a road, but was the boat launch.� Police are still investigating of how John Smirk’s Please See FATAL, A7

WORK BEGINS ON DOUBLEDAY REDO, MAIN ST.’S FINALE

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scaled-back Doubleday Field pavilion and computerized garbage cans for Main Street that automatically lock were among the revelations when Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch briefed the public two major projects underway this summer in downtown Cooperstown. For details, visit

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD


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